"What have they charged £54.85 for at 0% VAT?"

MoT.

Edited by Chris M on 01/05/2019 at 20:30

£150 to fit discs and pads seems excessive to me. I suggest she finds somewhere else to do the work in future.

The bit I liked was £56 for 4 litres of 0/30 oil. That's a good way to make money.

£60.90 + vat to change the engine oil, joke time of the bad sort.

This is why people should avoid glass palaces as much as possible, and by the sounds of it the make of car too, what sort of car at that sort of mileage could possibly need new brake dust shields...no my mistake, exhaust heat shield, what's it made of chocolate?

I would love to have given that car a full appraisal before it went in, pound to a penny all it needed was decent check over, oil change, and proper brake service, and i seriously doubt it needed those presumably titanium brake discs and pads.

Edited by gordonbennet on 01/05/2019 at 21:33

Ah, rusty brake disks. Regular MOT fail-fodder when I was in the Yook, though I'm pretty sure I've been told on here that it doesn't happen.

I took to keeping a shiny set just for the MOT, then I'd put the rusty ones back on afterwards.

Spose that tactics not much use to your granny though.

If I still had to pass an MOT I'd try electrolysis.

I saw a Crimean War steam engine in Freemantle Maritime Museum that spent a rather long time on the sea bed but now turns over by hand, thanks to electrolysis.

Spose that tactics not much use to your granny either, though.

Low mileage is not good for brakes, especially the cheapie ones fitted to entry level vehicles.

We had an Aygo and the front brake disks needed renewing after 4 years and just 12,000 miles - water had rusted the fins in the vented disks as they never get hot enough to get water off them.

However main dealer charge is typically twice what an indie will charge so far better to decline main dealer option and go elsewhere.

Indeed, on Aygo they don't last long even if used normally either, however @ around £80 for a decent quality full set of discs and pads, and about 30 minutes to fit even DIY, they arn't so much of an issue...for anyone with an Aygo/C1/107, i last fitted Brembo discs and pads and these are lasting much longer than other make aftermarket and OE.

I bet they didn't even grease the brake pipes in the hope that they would fail them for corrosion next year.

""ëven grease the brake pipes"" seems to imply that this (no doubt best) practice is common practice in a main dealer(or any other pro) service.

Things must have changed A LOT in the UK garage scene.

Edited by edlithgow on 04/05/2019 at 02:49

I know the design you mean Edlithgow, quite what came over any maker to use such a poor design is a mystery, but i suspect the cost to fit a set of discs would have been way over the already high main dealer charges on the invoice shown above, and likely included new wheel bearings too.

Came across this on son's Hyundai Coupe F2, removing the hubs from the carriers to access the discs completely destroys all 4 front wheel bearings, the races of which need to be pressed in and out, it was an expensive job even with us doing the donkey work, that silly design was fixed in the next model, and i am reliably told some, not all, Transit vans of a few years ago came with a similar arrangement, bonkers, also found on Matiz which no doubt comes as an unpleasant surprise to unwary owners.

Anyone got a clue to a single benefit of this design, apart from £££ for the dealers at replacement time?, almost as odd as Rover's inboard discs sitting beside the diff with the less than wonderful Lucas swinging arm calipers of the period on he P6 (though with the DeDion rear axle maybe it was excusable), those same awful calipers ended up on Mk4 Zephyr/Zodiac, being outboard more accessible but also subject to more weather, which quickly destroyed them.

Edited by gordonbennet on 04/05/2019 at 07:45